Heard a homeowner say they could do my job in half the time

Was at a supply house in Nashville last week and this guy renovating his own basement was bragging to the counter guy that flooring is just putting pieces together like a puzzle. Told him he was welcome to borrow my tools and try cutting around a cast iron toilet flange with a jigsaw on a Friday afternoon. Has anyone else had a customer or DIYer totally dismiss what we do?

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hannahk1926d ago

@gavin_hill27 hit it right on the head. I'll admit, before I got into flooring myself, I kinda thought the same thing. I watched some YouTube videos and was like "how hard can it be?" Then I tried cutting around a toilet flange for the first time and spent an hour with a jigsaw, three broken blades, and a piece of laminate that looked like a toddler drew on it. That guy in Nashville would probably drop his ego real fast after trying to scribe tile around a brick fireplace or matching up seams on a plank floor that's out of square by half an inch. It's not a puzzle when your cuts can't be undone and one mistake costs you a whole sheet of material.

blake69125d agoMost Upvoted

...wait, he actually called flooring "just puzzles"? That's insane. I mean yeah, puzzles don't bleed your fingers when you're cutting tile with a wet saw that kicks back, or make you want to throw your tape measure across the room when you measure three times and still cut the wrong angle. The guy's probably never had to stand over a plank with a heat gun for twenty minutes trying to un-warp it after a bad glue-up... that's not exactly puzzling your way through a Sunday afternoon.

gavin_hill2726d ago

Wait, he actually said flooring is just puzzles? That guy has clearly never tried cutting laminate around a corner bead or scribing tile to an uneven wall. I bet he'd change his tune after one afternoon of wrestling with a wet saw and a bad cut.

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